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XML and Netscape 6

Hello,

I am trying to do some XML development using Netscape 6.01 A for
Solaris 7 as the browser. Basically, its not working. The XML page
is simple, so I am not using a DTD, just a style sheet to display the page.

I have tried several different xml pages and get the same result.
Below is an example I used that is straight from the devshed
example list:

example.xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="example_stylesheet.xsl"?>

<me>
<name>John Doe</name>
<address>94, Main Street, Nowheresville 16463, XY</address>
<tel>738 2838</tel>
<email>johndoe@black.hole.com</email>
<url>http://www.unknown_and_unsung.com/</url>
</me>

and here is the example_stylesheet.xsl:
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">

<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<h1>Contact information for <b><xsl:value-of select="me/name" /></b></h1>

<h2>Mailing address:</h2> <xsl:value-of select="me/address" />

<h2>Phone:</h2> <xsl:value-of select="me/tel" />

<h2>Email address:</h2> <xsl:value-of select="me/email" />

<h2>Web site URL:</h2> <xsl:value-of select="me/url" />

</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>




When I load the example.xml page in netscape, I get the following
output:
John Doe 94, Main Street, Nowheresville 16463, XY 738 2838 johndoe@black.hole.com http://www.unknown_and_unsung.com/

All on one line. Basically what it did is extract all of the data and print it.
It doesnt matter if I put the reference to the stylesheet or not, I get the same
output.

From reading the Netscape 6 description, its supposed to be able to
handle XML. Is there some sort of special configuration option, or is
Netscape 6 just as bad the older versions??

Brady

After playing around a bit, using an example from mozzilla.org that worked correctly, I found that when adding HTML you need the following tag:

<xsl:output method="html" />


A working stylesheet (Netscape 6.2 & Internet Explorer 6) follows:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:strip-space elements="foo"/>

<!-- FileName: MATCH01 -->
<!-- Document: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath -->
<!-- DocVersion: 19991116 -->
<!-- Section: 2.5 -->
<!-- Creator: David Marston -->
<!-- Purpose: Test for //name match pattern. -->
<!-- set the output properties -->
<xsl:output method="html" />

<xsl:template match="doc">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="foo/bar//baz">
<FONT COLOR="blue"><xsl:value-of select="@att1"/></FONT>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

The corresponding xml is: <?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="select.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<doc>
<foo att1="c">
<bar att1="b">
<foo att1="a">
<baz att1="right"/>
</foo>
</bar>
<foo att1="a">
<baz att1="wrong"/>
</foo>
</foo>
</doc>

by the way the Smilie is not supposed to be there it is supposed to be : (colon) immediatly followed by "o" but I didn't turn smilies off ;)

Well I there is another problem ... the transformation works fine if it the files are loaded from the filesystem. When I load them from the Apache webserver only the xml text displays (as described above).

<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="example_stylesheet.xsl"?>

is invalid in XSLT but it's valid in XSL. That's why it works in IE but not Mozilla/NS.

Try this syntax instead and it will fix your problem:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="example_stylesheet.xsl"?>










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